On Jun 28, 2010, at 1:40 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > That said, many of my friends are amazed to learn that they can so > effortlessly run such a highly revered OS (the Solaris proper, not > OpenSolaris--most of them really don't care about the latter and I am sure > Oracle's people cannot avoid sensing that) on their own notebook. The trick > is to send them the entire .VirtualBox folder--with Solaris10u8 > pre-installed, of course. All they need to do is to install the VBox > executable.
The 'Export appliance' feature in recent VirtualBox versions works really well, too. It's pretty easy to package up a virtual machine and its associated disk file in a ZIP archive and pass it around, that way. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
